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Antibacterial effect of various herbal root canal irrigants.

Vathsala N, Saikiran Bahadur, Aseem Sharma, Nisha Gupta, Ahmed Ali Ahmed Almuntashiri, Reshma Rajan, Arpita Mohapatra, Awadhesh Gupta

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8 authors.

Vathsala NDepartment of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, The Oxford Dental College and Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Saikiran BahadurDepartments of Prosthodontics, Springfield Dental, Springfield, Massachussets, USA.
Aseem SharmaDepartment of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Himachal Institute of Dental Sciences (HIDS), Paonta Sahib, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Nisha GuptaDepartments of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, ESIC Dental College and Hospital, Delhi, India.
Ahmed Ali Ahmed AlmuntashiriDepartment of Public Health, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Qassim University, Buraydah-51452, PO Box-6666, Saudi Arabia.
Reshma RajanDepartment of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Malabar Dental College and Research Centre, Kerala, India.
Arpita MohapatraDepartment of Periodontology, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Awadhesh GuptaDepartment of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, DJ College of Dental Sciences and Research, Modinagar, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Root canal irrigation is crucial in endodontics. Therefore, it is of interest to evaluate the antibacterial efficacy of various herbal root canal irrigants (Triphala, Neem (

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Antibacterialherbalirrigantsroot canal

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PMCPMC12044182

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